Joseph Edward Mayer (February 5, 1904 – October 15, 1983) was an American chemist who formulated the Mayer expansion in statistical field theory. ^[1]

He was professor of chemistry at the University of California San Diego from 1960 to 1972, and previously at Johns Hopkins University, Columbia University and the University of Chicago. ^[2] He was married to Nobel Prize-winning physicist Maria Goeppert Mayer from 1930 until her death in 1972. He went to work with James Franck in Göttingen, Germany in 1929, where he met Maria, a student of Max Born. He was a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences (1946), ^[3] the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1958), ^[4] and the American Philosophical Society (1970). ^[5] Joseph Mayer was president of the American Physical Society from 1973 to 1975.

Scientific contributions

He developed the cluster expansion method and Mayer-McMillan solution theory.

See also

• Mayer f-function

References

Further reading

• Clark, Leigh B.; Zimm, Bruno H. "Joseph Edward Mayer obituary". University of California.

External links

• Joseph Mayer Papers MSS 0047. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego Library.

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